"I was raised on the Revan planet, though I was actually born on the small moon that revolves it. My parents were part of our rebel cause, though, so they both had to go right back into battle not long after I was born, and I was raised mostly through the nursery at the central rebel stronghold." Clove paused to clear his throat, and by the time he did so, Mochi had waded over to the very edge of the pond, kneeling down in the mud so she could listen to his quietly-whispered tale.

"Where's that?" Cotton Fluff asked.

"I'm... not sure I can say, actually," Clove replied cautiously. "The whereabouts of the base... well, let's just say that it moves around a lot, and it's kind of a secret. Need-to-know basis and all that."

"Fair enough," Cotton said with a nod. "Go on."

"As I was saying, I grew up mostly in the nursery with my parents generally on missions or out fighting on the Revan planet, in the thick of the borderlands. Because I didn't see my parents... it wasn't for years and years that I found out that my mom had died just a year or so after I was born. It was my dad that told me this, though not until I was eight—that was when he first visited me, since he had been on a spying mission on the Gnostic planet until then, even though my mother—his partner—had been taken out so long before."

"Oh, I'm so sorry..." Mochi said, leaning in.

"Well, that's just the thing," Clove replied. "My dad I didn't know at all, because I was raised by the staff at the nursery and with the other children there, so while in concept he was pretty cool, I didn't know him. My mom I was even less attached to, because I've never been able to remember her."